323,000 pieces of malware detected daily

December 8, 2016 – 5:37 AM

According to Kaspersky Lab, the number of new malware files detected by its products in 2016 increased to 323,000 per day. This is an increase of 13,000 from the amount in 2015, and a significant jump from the 70,000 files per day identified in 2011.

The number of cyberthreats appearing every day is now so big that it is impossible to process each one of them manually. That’s why automating the malware discovery and analysis process, in combination with human expertise, is the best approach when it comes to fighting modern cyber threats.

As a result, the Kaspersky Lab cloud malware database, includes discoveries by Astraea – a machine-learning based malware analysis system working inside the Kaspersky Lab infrastructure. Over a fifth of the malicious objects included in the cloud database were discovered and identified as malicious by Astraea. The database now carries a billion malicious objects, including viruses, Trojans, backdoors, ransomware, and advertisement applications and their components.

The percentage of malware discovered and added automatically to the Kaspersky Lab cloud database by Astraea has been growing steadily over the last five years: from 7.53 percent in 2012, to 40.5 percent in December 2016. The proportion is growing in line with the number of new malicious files discovered daily by Kaspersky Lab experts and detection systems. This has increased from 70,000 files per day in 2011 to 323,0001 per day in 2016.

Source:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/12/08/malware-detected-daily/